Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it.
No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction - a need, a necessity, a vision that is so pressing that it has no other outlet but through you. That doesn't mean that you are unconscious or in trance, but there can be moments like that.
For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the "spiritual" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the "world and woman," i. e. , the anima projected on to the world.
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.
Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.
The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.
A true personality. . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious. . . that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.
Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.
The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing. "
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin. It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.